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Title:Terracotta trefoil oinochoe (jug)
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 625–600 BCE
Culture:Etruscan
Medium:Terracotta; bucchero sottile
Dimensions:H. 11 3/16 in. (28.4 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1921
Object Number:21.88.159
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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1936. "The Technique of Bucchero Ware." Studi Etruschi, 10: pp. 64–65, pls. 23.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1940. Handbook of the Etruscan Collection. pp. 10–11, fig. 31, New York: Marchbanks Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A., Grace Crowfoot, and Donald Benjamin Harden. 1956. "Part I: Ceramics from c. 700 B.C. to the Fall of the Roman Empire." A History of Technology: The Mediterranean Civilizations and the Middle Ages, c. 700 B.C. to c. A.D. 1500, Vol. 2, Charles Singer, Eric John Holmyard, Alfred Rupert Hall, and Trevor Williams, eds. p. 271, fig. 251, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Gran-Aymerich, Jean. 1973. "Un Conjunto de Vasos de Bucchero inciso: Ensayo de Formalización." Trabajos de Prehistoria, 30: no. 220001, pp. 271–2, 228, 288.
de Puma, Richard Daniel. 1976. "The Etruscan Legacy: Early Collecting and Bucchero Pots." Archaeology, 29 (4): p. 223.
Markoe, Glenn and Nancy J. Serwint. 1985. Animal Style on Greek and Etruscan Vases : An Exhibition at the Robert Hull Fleming Museum. no. 41, p. 44, Burlington, Vermont: Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont.
de Puma, Richard Daniel. 2013. Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 4.72b, pp. 39, 96, New Haven and London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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